THE police acted swiftly yesterday morning to Monday night’s shooting death of one of their colleagues, killing one of the chief suspects in an alleged gunfight, while another, named publicly by officers as one of the suspects, turned himself in last evening.

Detective Corporal Dave Daley was gunned down in the volatile Kingston community of Brook Valley in Duhaney Park on Monday night. But before dawn yesterday morning officers from the St Andrew South Division, who were on the trail of Daley’s killers, cut down a man identified as Ian ‘Jubba’ Mundell, said to be among the shooters who cut down the detective corporal.

Superintendent Michael Phipps of the Hunts Bay Police Station said the police received information that a group of gunmen were gathered at 8 Waltham Park Road, and that shortly after arriving on the scene the men opened fire at the police and a shoot-out ensued. He said that during the shoot-out Mundell was shot and killed along the intersection of Waltham and Harvey roads, and his firearm – a 9mm pistol, which contained two live rounds – was taken by the police.

Subsequent enquiries, Phipps said, then led the police to believe that Mundell was among the group of men who shot Detective Corporal Daley on Monday night.

In a public appeal, the police later told the other suspects that the cops were on their trail and warned them to turn themselves in.

By 5:30 pm yesterday, one of the suspects named by the cops as having information pertaining to Daley’s death turned himself over to the police at the Commissioner’s Office in the city. The man, who was accompanied by a pastor, was transported to the Kingston Central Police Station where he was processed by officers there. It was unclear last night if charges were laid against him.

According to the man’s common-law wife, who declined to give her name, her spouse was not in the Brook Valley community when Daley was killed. She told reporters that on Monday night she was in the vicinity when shots were being fired in Brook Valley, and she called her spouse to warn him against going into the area.

Up to late yesterday evening the police were investigating reports that another man, suspected to have participated in Daley’s killing, was shot and injured in the community of Seaview Gardens.

According to the Constabulary Communication Network (CCN), at approximately 9:40 pm, Daley, who was assigned to the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse, was carrying out enquiries in Duhaney Park, and on reaching Brook Avenue he saw a group of men arguing. Daley allegedly intervened in the argument, during which he was fired on by a group of gunmen.

Daley, the CCN said, returned the fire and managed to fatally injure one of the men. However, Daley, a single parent and father of two, received several gunshot wounds during the exchange and died on the spot. The men took his service pistol. The other man was identified by the police only as ‘Joel’.

There were however, unconfirmed reports that shortly before his death Daley got into an altercation with several men along Brook Avenue, after one of them threw a stone at his car. During the altercation, Daley allegedly chased one of the men then suddenly came under a barrage of gunshots. The claim was, however, dismissed by Senior Superintendent of the Hunts Bay Police Station Newton Amos.

Meanwhile, the St Andrew South Homicide Team were last night seeking two men who they believe can assist their investigations into the matter. They are known as ‘Harry Dog’, and ‘Chris’, also known as ‘Ian’. They are urging anyone who may have information regarding the whereabouts of the two men to contact Kingfish, Crime Stop or the police emergency numbers.

Yesterday, Commissioner of Police Lucius Thomas expressed his condolences to Daley’s family and vowed to bring Daley’s killers to justice.

“I extend my condolences to his family and colleagues and vow to the law-abiding citizens of Jamaica and my colleagues that whatever resources are available to me as commissioner of police will be put to finding these criminals wherever they are… We have information who these guys are and we are going to find them wherever they are,” he said.

Meanwhile, Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) spokesman on National Security Derrick Smith said he hoped the perpetrators would be found, tried and hanged.

“We do hope that they (the remaining suspects) are tracked, charged, tried promptly, found guilty of capital murder and suffer the consequence of the verdict of capital murder. That is, taken to the gallows as quickly as possible,” Smith said.

Daley is the sixth police officer to be killed by criminals since the beginning of this year.

– Additional reporting by Karyl Walker